Re: [OT] I need a reality check

--- "K.H.Ranitzsch" <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de> wrote:
> 
> This argument is incomplete.
> 
> Second, and probably more important in terms of Dollars, the
> government hospitals could offer the service of their surgeons to 
> paying customers, bringing in revenue.

And increase the malpractice insurance by an order of magnitude.  Ends
up a zero-sum or losing proposition.

> 
> Indeed, a believer in free-market economy might ask why the long-term
> treatment of military personnel (as opposed to urgent in-theater
> cases) has to be done by government institutions at all. Why not do
it 
> in private hospitals, (with the  government paying the bill), which 
> would be more efficient at it ?

1.  A major or colonel makes a LOT (LOT LOT LOT) less than a family GP
in the US, let alone a specialist.

2.  The doctors, nurses, etc. for what you call "urgent in theater
cases" are A) still on payroll and B) have to keep up their skills
doing something.

J